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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.2.8.pr

Creditor Delay Barring Penalties on Maritime Loans

Passage 3217 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Citing the opinion of Servius, this section explains that the penalty for a maritime loan cannot be claimed if the creditor is responsible for the delay in receiving the payment.

[ULPIANUS libro septuagesimo septimo ad edictum. ] §22.2.8.prSeruius ait pecuniae traiecticiae poenam peti non posse, si per creditorem stetisset, quo minus eam intra certum tempus praestitutum accipiat.
[ULPIANUS, in the seventy-seventh book on the Edict.] Servius says that the penalty of a maritime loan cannot be claimed if it was due to the creditor that he did not receive it within the certain predetermined time.

Notes

  1. §22.2.8.prsi per creditorem stetisset — The idiom stare per aliquem followed by a quo minus clause means "to be the fault of someone that... not..." or "someone is the cause of... not happening." Here, the pluperfect subjunctive stetisset is used to express a past condition.
  2. §22.2.8.praccipiat — The subject of the subjunctive verb accipiat is creditor, and its object eam refers to pecuniam (implied from pecuniae traiecticiae). This refers to the situation where the creditor himself failed to receive the payment (default of the creditor).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.2.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.2.8.pr

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